Crime in my neighborhood

Crime in my neighborhood

Introduction

Marble Hill is the district's northernmost borough of Manhattan in New York , landlocked in the Bronx. Formerly, the area was detached from that of Inwood south, was surrounded to the west, north and east by a meander of the Harlem River. To ease navigation and avoid it, was dug in 1895, in its southern part, the Harlem River Ship Canal, thereby isolating the rest of Marble Hill in Manhattan, transforming an island. In 1914, former meander of the river will be been filled, physically linking Marble Hill, Bronx.

There followed a quarrel between the two boroughs for the administration of this territory. When in 1939 , a judge ruled that Marble Hill was still legally part of Manhattan, the chairman of the Bronx said that these were the "Sudetenland in the Bronx", referring to this region germanophone Czechoslovakia that Hitler annexed in 1938.

The interviews were taken from the residents and their responses were analyzied. The crime scenes were increasing in the neighborhood and strict actions had to be taken by the people for the safeguard of the people living in the district. For this, the common concensus was made to go for the neighborhood watch programs. Neighborhood Watches are grass-roots, community based, crime-reduction organizations, normally operated in partnership with the police and sometimes also including collaboration with local authorities. The terms Block Watch and Home Watch are sometimes used as alternatives to Neighborhood Watch. Activities associated with Neighborhood Watch typically include meetings of members, erection of street signs indicating that Neighborhood Watch operates in the area, decals on the windows of individual members, and more or less regular liaison with local police. Other activities can range from property marking to street patrol to improvements in security. The main purposes of Neighborhood Watch are to provide protection to members, in particular from residential burglary, although other crimes may be of concern also, to reduce fear of crime, and to improve the supply of intelligence to the police in order that they can better detect crime (McConville & Shepherd, 2002).

Theoretical Basis

The reason for the choice of Neighboor watch was unanimous, seeing the prospects of the the program. Neighborhood Watch has high face validity in regard to its various purposes. As a vehicle for improving crime detection and prevention (Laycock & Tilley, 2005):

Neighborhood Watch recognizes that the police are poorly placed either to detect or to prevent crime on their own. Community cooperation and collaboration are needed.

Crime detection generally turns, at least in part, on the supply of information from members of the public, and conviction often depends on the willingness of citizens to provide evidence in court. One of the main planks of Neighborhood Watch is that members act as the “eyes and ears” of the police, reporting suspicious activities so that the police can take action.

The improvements in detection that may be expected to result from Neighborhood Watch might then help prevent crime through the incapacitation or deterrence of the offenders caught and ...